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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to background and criminal history checks for parents or |
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other relatives of children in residential child-care facilities. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 42.056, Human Resources Code, is amended |
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by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: |
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(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the director, owner, |
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or operator of a residential child-care facility is not required to |
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submit to the department the information required under that |
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subsection for use in conducting a background and criminal history |
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check on a parent or other relative of a child who is a client in |
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care at the facility if: |
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(1) the department has on file for the parent or |
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relative a background and criminal history check; and |
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(2) the background and criminal history check was |
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conducted within the two-year period preceding the date the parent |
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or relative visits the client at the facility. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |